E. E. Clive
Edward Erskholme Clive was a Welsh stage actor and director who had a prolific acting career in Britain and America. He also played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood movies between 1933 and his death. E. E. Clive was born on 28 August 1879 in Blaenavon in Monmouthshire. Clive studied for a medical career, and had completed four years of medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital before switching his focus to acting at age 22. Touring the provinces for a decade, Clive became an expert at virtually every sort of regional dialect in the British Isles. He moved to the US in 1912, where after working in the Orpheum vaudeville circuit he set up his own stock company in Boston. By the 1920s, his company was operating in Hollywood; among his repertory players were such up-and-comers as Rosalind Russell. He also worked at the Broadway in several plays. E. E. Clive made his film debut as a village police constable in 1933's The Invisible Man with Claude Rains, then spent the next seven years showing up in wry supporting and bit parts, where he often portrayed comical versions of English stereotypes. He often played butlers, reporters, aristocrats, shopkeepers and cabbies during his short film career. Though his roles were often small, Clive was a well-known and prolific character actor of his time. Among his best-known roles was the incompetent Burgomaster in James Whale's horror classic Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He was a semi-regular as Tenny the Butler in Paramount Pictures' Bulldog Drummond B series, starring John Howard; he also played butlers in other movies like Bachelor Mother with David Niven and Ginger Rogers. In 1939, Clive appeared in The Little Princess as the lawyer Mr. Barrows, and the first two entries of the classic Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone. One of Clive's last roles was Sir William Lucas in the 1940 literature adaption Pride and Prejudice (1940) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. E. E. Clive died on 6 June 1940, of a heart ailment, in his Hollywood home. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and their child. Clive was a member of the Euclid lodge of Freemasons in Boston.
Bride of Frankenstein
(Burgomaster)
The Invisible Man
(Constable Jaffers)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(Sir Harry Lorridaile)
Dracula's Daughter
(Detective Sergeant Wilkes)
Libeled Lady
(Fishing Instructor)
The Little Princess
(Mr. Barrows)
Charlie Chan in London
(Det. Sgt. Thacker)
The Gay Divorcee
(Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited))
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
(Tenny)
Pride and Prejudice
(Sir William Lucas)
Rose of Washington Square
(Barouche Driver)
Personal Property
(Cosgrove Dabney)
The Little Minister
(Sheriff Greer)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
(Sir Humphrey Harcourt)
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
(Tenny)
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
("Tenny" Tennison)
Tarzan Escapes
(Masters)
Captain Blood
(Clerk of the Court)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(Inspector Bristol)
Show Boat
Congo Maisie
(Horace Snell)
Lloyd's of London
(Magistrate)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(Mayor Thomas Sapsea)
It's Love I'm After
(First Butler)
Isle of Fury
(Dr. Hardy)
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
(Tenny)
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
('Tenny' Tennison)
The Emperor's Candlesticks
(Auctioneer)
Love Before Breakfast
(Yacht Captain (uncredited))
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
('Tenny' Tennison)
Arsène Lupin Returns
(Alf)
The Earl of Chicago
(Mr. Redwood)
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
(Tenny)
Danger – Love at Work
(Wilbur)
Piccadilly Jim
(London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan)
Raffles
(Barraclough)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
(London Bobbie)
Cain and Mabel
(Charles Fendwick)
Live, Love and Learn
(Mr. Palmiston)
Trouble for Two
(King)
The Poor Rich
(Lord Fetherstone)
The Unguarded Hour
(Lord Henry Hathaway)
The Dark Hour
(Foot, the Butler)
Ticket to Paradise
(Barkins)
Long Lost Father
(Spot Hawkins)
Atlantic Adventure
(McIntosh)
Man About Town
(Hotchkiss)
Father Brown, Detective
(Sergeant Dawes)
We're in the Money
(Jevons)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(London Cabbie John Clayton)
Palm Springs
(Morgan)
The First Hundred Years
(Chester Blascomb)
David Copperfield
(Sheriff's Man (uncredited))
They Wanted to Marry
(Stiles)
Ready, Willing and Able
(Sir Samuel Buffington)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
(Lord Nigel Braemer)
Kind Lady
(Grammaphone Man (uncredited))
Stars Over Broadway
(Crane)
Bachelor Mother
(Butler)
The White Angel
(Dr. Smith (uncredited))
Page Miss Glory
(Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited))
On the Avenue
(Cabby)
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
(Port Commandant General (uncredited))
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
(Tenny)
Cheaters at Play
(Steward)
Kidnapped
(Minister MacDougall)
Submarine Patrol
Maid of Salem
(Bilge)
The Golden Arrow
(Walker)
All American Chump
(. Montgomery Brantley)
All American Chump
(Montgomery Brantley)
The Last Warning
(Major Barclay)
I'm from Missouri
(Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood)
Love Under Fire
(Captain Bowden)
Gateway
(Room Steward)
Foreign Correspondent
(Mr. Naismith (uncredited))
Flowing Gold
(Mr. Naismith (uncredited))
Remember Last Night?
(Coroner's Photographer (uncredited))
Camille
(Saint Gaudens (uncredited))
One More River
(Chayne)
Night Must Fall
(Guide)
The Widow from Monte Carlo
(Lord Holloway)
Gold Diggers of 1935
(Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited))
Adventure in Diamonds
(Mr. MacPherson)
Riptide
(Major Mills (uncredited))
A Feather in Her Hat
(Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited))
3 Kids and a Queen
(Coachman)
The Big Parade of Comedy
(Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.))
Show Boat
(Sir Arthur)
A Tale of Two Cities
(Judge in 'Old Bailey')